This year has brought many interesting developments in technology easing its way into lawmakers’ attempts to increase safety on the roads — and the news, unfortunately, forcing their hand. With the rash of prominent stories regarding drunk driving accidents, wrong way driving accidents, and the like, no matter how much lawmakers try to curb the…
As various local news outlets have reported, an off-duty Chicago Police Officer was recently charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving injuries and disorderly conduct for filing a false police report after a rather interesting turn of events stemming from allegations that the officer ran into a pedestrian on a bicycle and is alleged to have…
One of the most discouraging things to encounter in personal injury law is where you endure a lengthy litigation process and even obtain a successful verdict at trial, only for the defendant to turn around and declare bankruptcy in an attempt to discharge your judgment and force you to walk away with nothing. In situations…
A lawsuit filed in Nevada seeks to affirm an arbitration award of $4.5 million to the family of a woman that died in a Las Vegas nursing home of complications from bed sores, skin breakdown, and dehydration. As the article explained, the deceased resided in the nursing home for less than three weeks while recovering…
Perhaps the most common business torts that you are likely to encounter, other than breach of contract theories, fall under the general heading of fraud. Fraud is a general term that, in practical application, has many different names — i.e. fraud in the inducement, fraudulent misrepresentation, and common law fraud, just to name a few.…
One of the oldest maxims in American civil litigation — a concept usually introduced on literally the first day of an aspiring law student’s first year tort class — is that a defendant takes a plaintiff as he or she finds them. This has otherwise come to be known as the “eggshell plaintiff rule,” where…
As discussed, it’s no secret that nursing homes and patient advocates alike are extremely nervous about the ramifications that may unfold due to Governor Quinn’s proposed Medicare cuts. That’s why a recent article is particularly interesting, as it details a Champaign nursing home’s potential solution to raise revenue by instituting dialysis services within its facilities.…
We’ve discussed, on a few occasions, the ongoing saga of the Joliet nursing home that is in the process of losing its license to operate as a long-term care facility after numerous investigations by the Department of Public Health of allegations of patient abuse. With this in mind, revoking a license sounds like (and is)…
It has long been one of the touchstones of business and commercial litigation that corporate actors (such as, for instance, CEO’s, Presidents, Managers, and the like) are absolutely prohibited from what is known as “self-dealing.” Self-dealing is a concept that takes on something of a life of its own on a case-by-case basis. For purposes…
One of the most common themes in nursing home abuse and neglect cases, as we’ve discussed, is the tragedies that unfold — most of which are preventable — when nursing homes are understaffed and the staff is undertrained or provided with inadequate resources. Most (if not all) of the time, these decisions as to how…